Workshops & Speakers

Workshops

WTC’s workshops draw upon our organization’s 14+ years of experience of community-led advocacy, anti-oppression principles, and an ability to bridge ideas across diverse communities. Our workshops prioritize accessibility, culturally safe content, and interactive, repeatable frameworks that allow participants to engage no matter where they are in their learning journey. 

Who are these workshops for?

  • Community groups, neighbourhood houses, local non-profits, and grassroots organizations looking to develop advocacy skills and engage in civic systems.

  • Corporate partners who prioritize skill-building, knowledge-sharing, and embedding equity practices into their work.

  • Municipal government workers & elected leaders striving to centre equity in their community engagement work and policy development.

We tailor our content to the needs, safety, language, and knowledge level of our participants, so all our workshops can be adapted for you! 

WORKSHOP OFFERINGS

WORKSHOPS TO NAVIGATE CIVIC SYSTEMS

  • How to Drive Change at City Hall - demystify local government by providing an overview of local government ecosystems, and opportunities to impact local decision-making.

  • Public Speaking for Civic Impact - learn how to frame your experiences to shift decisions at City Hall. Learn how to sign up to speak to your councillors, explore tips on crafting a persuasive speech, and practice relaying your lived experience.

  • Examining the Role of Local Government in Truth & Reconciliation - explore the role of local government in advancing the TRC Calls to Action, including how municipalities can progress the Calls to Action, what challenges they may face, and ways to overcome these barriers.

Workshops to build your advocacy and community organizing

  • How to Organize for Change - explore who you are as a changemaker and gain the foundation for forming a grassroots campaign and starting to community organize.

  • The Structure of an Effective Campaign - ​​create an issue-based campaign, by exploring the frameworks of effective grassroots organizing including identifying targets, power mapping, and exploring campaign tactics.

  • Avoiding Burnout: Self Care for Sustained Change - gain strategies to balance the demands of organizing and non-profit work, avoid burnout, and maintain the resilience needed for long-term movement-building and change-making work.

Workshops to embed equity into your life and work

  • Putting an Equity Lens on Community Engagement - explore the five most common challenges to equitable engagement with strategies to overcome those, including building trust, avoiding tokenization, and limiting engagement fatigue. 

  • Applying Intersectionality as a Framework - develop a shared language on how power, privilege, and positionality impact our experiences. Learn how to apply intersectionality as a tool to ensure equitable practices and policies.

  • Accelerating Action on Gender Equity - learn about the history of International Women’s Day and ways to take action in your personal life, professional life, and at a systems level to advance gender equity.

LOGISTICS

  • Workshops are available online or in-person.

  • Workshops range from 60-120 minutes, depending on group size and content.

  • In-person groups are capped at 30 people.

Cost

Our workshops operate on a sliding scale based on the group size, delivery location, length, custom content, and other factors. Prices range from $1,500-3,000. Depending on funding, we aim to deliver workshops to grassroots organizations free of charge, but please reach out regardless of your budget.

FACILITATORS

The WTC facilitation team are experienced in creating safe, engaging and interactive learning experiences. They bring lived experiences that align with the workshop content, and offer real-life examples and activities that bring the learning objectives to life. Each facilitator has received training to foster supportive, inclusive and accessible learning spaces.

Hear from Our Participants

“The workshop held by WTC on intersectionality was engaging and informative. The two hosts created a safe space for people to participate and share their thoughts. Time flew by!”

— South Vancouver Neighbourhood House [Applying Intersectionality as a Framework]

“Great workshop leader, well spoken, well-informed, kind, inclusive attitude. The workshop series was excellent! A perfect guide to start with!”

— Marpole Neighbourhood House participant 

“It was great! Highly informative and made me think about ways in which I could improve our presentations, meetings structures, and collaboration between other teams so that we could work more cohesively and ensure that the work we are doing is making a difference and providing benefit to all the groups we are impacting and working alongside.”

— Translink participant [Putting an Equity Lens on Community Engagement]

“The workshop was really great! Knowing where to go to make a difference was an overwhelming task for me and I feel like I can now work on the things I care about because my energy won't be lost on trying to find where to go.”

— Marpole Neighbourhood House participant [How to Drive Change at City Hall]

“These workshops are practical and delivered in plain language, making it easy to understand and act on.”

— Marpole Neighbourhood House participant [Public Speaking for Civic Impact]

“I truly appreciate the delivery style and the thought given to each detail of the workshop. I hope to attend many more of these!”

— Mosaic participant [How to Organize for Change]

“[The facilitator] was a very knowledgeable speaker and did a great job covering a significant amount of content in a short period of time. Participants left the room with meaningful reflection and motivation.”

— Metro Vancouver participant [Accelerating Action on Gender Equity]

“Very concise and informative. The language used was clear to me. This was a great event that can help any organization to build a better diverse governance and operations structure.”

— ArtsBC participant [Applying Intersersectionality as a Framework]

Participants who ranked their knowledge of intersectionality as strong or very strong increased by 90% after participating in a WTC workshop.

95% pf participants indicated that they were more likely to speak to ciy council following a WTC workshop

100% of Translink participants of Putting an Equity Lens on Community Engagement said the content was relevant to their work.

100% of our participants would take another workshop with WTC.

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If you are interested in a workshop or speaker, get in touch with Monique, Manager of Education & Community Engagement, at monique@womentransformingcities.org.